On Sun 11 Nov 2007, Jürgen Herz wrote:
On 2007-11-11 01:13, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
I have enabled SSL support for my dovecot installation but if I enable secure authentication in my MUA, I get an error from dovecot telling me that this is not supported..
Is this because dovecot does not support this or am I missing some config?
Might be. But note that with "secure authentication" it might mean CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, Kerberos a.s.o. that are no simple plain text or just Base64 coding mechanisms. SSL on the other hand is a way to make a secure *connection*. So make sure some of the above mechanisms are enabled in your dovecot installation as well.
Apologies for a very ignorant question, but I am puzzled by authentication generally in Linux. Eg does one have to choose between CRAM-MDS, etc. Could I just ignore them all if I use SSL?
Is there a clear and simple document on authentication in Linux?